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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:36 pm Post subject: SW's 'factoids' - wrong! |
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Tim Smith made reference to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin broadcasting from 'Apollo 13' during the factoids. Bzzt.... wrong answer.
Question is, why am I listening to such nonsense? Back to the CDs, methinks.... _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Cherskiy
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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:16 am Post subject: |
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Armstrong and Aldrin were, of course, Commander and Lunar Module Pilot respectively of 11 - the first landing. How quickly our history is forgotten.... _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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JanewayDar
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 60 Location: USA
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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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Cherskiy wrote: |
Armstrong and Aldrin were, of course, Commander and Lunar Module Pilot respectively of 11 - the first landing. How quickly our history is forgotten.... |
If I'm correct, Armstrong and Aldrin helped to keep Lovell's mom occupied during the landing of Apollo 13 (in case the guys didn't make it back I guess)
JD _________________ Many Thanks to Krystle @ Belanna's for the avatar. |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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JanewayDar wrote: | If I'm correct, Armstrong and Aldrin helped to keep Lovell's mom occupied during the landing of Apollo 13 (in case the guys didn't make it back I guess)
JD |
That's entirely possible, since the Astronaut corps were a tight-knit community back then.
It was amazing how the news organisations fell over themselves to report on each minute of the mission once Swigert broadcast his famous "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here" message. Before then, the networks had apparently tried to resist 24 hour coverage of what was to them becoming a non-newsworthy event - hell, it would have been only the third moon landing....
By Apollo 17, the last one (18, 19 and 20 were pulled by NASA), TV stations were receiving complaints from people annoyed that live coverage of the mission was forcing them to miss *re-runs* of "I Love Lucy"! _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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Do you ever feel that Steve Wright just makes up the factoids? The whole show is devoid of any effort, although it still seems to take him all day to record it. _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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nod
Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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Make them up, is he that clever ?. I thought he just buys books of useless facts and reads them out., or sometimes I've read them on teletext etc days or weeks earlier.
When they try to explain them, I just give up as they normally haven't got a clue what they are talking about. |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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nod wrote: | Make them up, is he that clever ?. I thought he just buys books of useless facts and reads them out., or sometimes I've read them on teletext etc days or weeks earlier.
When they try to explain them, I just give up as they normally haven't got a clue what they are talking about. |
I think they get them from Wiki and some other websites but don't corroborate them with other sources - Wiki is notoriously inaccurate in some respects. I'd be surprised if they have a team of researchers - or even one - dreaming them up each day. _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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nod
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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What do nice but dim or the veggie do during when not on air ?. They only come in at 14:30 and then disappear during the non-non-stop bit, so they have plenty of time to 'research'. |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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nod wrote: | What do nice but dim or the veggie do during when not on air ?. They only come in at 14:30 and then disappear during the non-non-stop bit, so they have plenty of time to 'research'. |
That pre-supposes they know how to use a computer.... _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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